id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6620 Hendrik Wyermars - Wikipedia .html text/html 1419 138 65 Hendrik Wyermars (early June 1685 – 27 September 1757) was a Dutch radical Enlightenment thinker from Amsterdam who in 1710 published a philosophical book defending the eternity of the world and rejecting the literal version of the Creation story from the book of Genesis. A lengthy review of Wyermars's book by the German scholar Christoph August Heumann in the Acta philosophorum for 1716 gave Wyermars an international reputation as a Spinozist.[7] The first modern scholarly article on Wyermars was written in 1974 by the Flemish researcher Hubert Vandenbossche (1945-2016).[8] Jonathan Israel included Wyermars in his study on the Radical Enlightenment (2001), describing him as an "incisive, challenging thinker" who embodied "a new kind of vernacular, non-academic, philosophical materialism" that was disseminated through coffee houses, discussion groups and easily accessible writings.[9] In 2015 Wyermars's book was republished in an annotated and modernized Dutch version with an introduction summarizing the current state of scholarship on Wyermars.[10] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6620.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6620.txt